The biggest losers are the players for whom the tournament is unique.
Hockey has been lost to the coronavirus in a short time three times.
First, the Hockey League NHL closed its players to the door to the Beijing Olympics. The decision would cut players, the owners of the clubs, much less.
The coronavirus hit the puck for the second time when the 18-year-old World Cup was completely canceled. It should have been held in January.
The decisive blow collapsed in Canada. The 20-year-old World Championships in Edmonton and Red Deer were suspended in the early round when the coronavirus and match transfers became overwhelming.
The cancellation of three matches was the final blow to the finished tournament. However, there is still a small chance that the tournament will continue later.
Young The World Cup is one of the crown jewels of the International Hockey Federation. The tournament is hugely popular in Canada and partly in other countries as conditions allow.
In Canada, giant halls are full, money is coming in and the crowd is watching the tournament much more enthusiastically than several NHL matches.
In Edmonton and Red Deer, everything went wrong. The planned corona bubble betrayed and the virus crept among the teams despite a large amount of testing.
The just-concluded World Championships in Youth were meant to take the audience to the halls, though not in full force. Last year, the same place was played in empty stands.
Players and team members were tested and kept in isolation, but the bubble leaked elsewhere. The end result was canceled matches and suspended races.
Suspended The biggest losers in the World Cup are the players. The IIHF will lose money, as will the TV companies, but for players the tournament would have been completely unique. Many of them will never be able to play the 20-year-old World Cup again, and many won’t even play for the national team after that.
So far, it is known that the self-transformation of coronavirus is very sensitive and may have a big problem.
The Winter Olympics will begin in just over a month in Beijing. China has so far tried to quell the virus with strict isolation, and it plans to do so at the Olympics as well.
To date, the coronavirus has knocked out hockey effectively, with much larger numbers of athletes moving around Beijing than in the Edmonton and Red Deer tournaments.
China may be able to stifle the virus, but at the same time it can stifle the Olympic spirit.
It is certain that not many of the hockey teams are looking at Beijing anymore.
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